{"id":76352,"date":"2016-05-25T22:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=76352"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:46:52","slug":"jury-hearing-recording-trial-pair-accused-plotting-murder-spouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/25\/jury-hearing-recording-trial-pair-accused-plotting-murder-spouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury hearing recording at trial of pair accused of plotting to murder spouses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PRINCE ALBERT, Sask.\u2014The father of an NHL player and his mistress talked about staging a disappearance and a house fire in what the Crown alleges was a plot to murder their respective spouses.<\/p>\n

The bottom line: they needed to cover their tracks, a jury was told Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Brigitte Vey took the witness stand at the trial of her husband, Curtis Vey\u2014they are the parents of Vancouver Canucks forward Linden Vey\u2014and Angela Nicholson, who each face two charges of conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n

Brigitte testified she thought things were fine in their 28-year marriage. The couple, who lived on a farm near Wakaw, Sask., were planning for retirement together until October 2012, when Brigitte said she caught her husband texting in the bathtub and became suspicious that he was cheating on her.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I said I wanted to see the phone and then he dropped the phone in the tub,\u201d she testified. After that, the relationship was \u201cpretty rocky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brigitte hid her iPod under the kitchen table at the farmhouse on July 1, 2013, and went to work. What it captured over the course of the next several hours shocked her.<\/p>\n

In a scratchy recording played for the jury Wednesday, Nicholson shows up and chats with Curtis about her birthday, and mentions the flowers that he gave her for Valentine’s Day, her pending divorce and his work on the farm.<\/p>\n

Then the lengthy conversation shifts to their spouses.<\/p>\n

Curtis wonders aloud if anyone would notice if Nicholson’s husband were to disappear.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be a number of days before anybody’s suspicious he’s gone,\u201d Curtis is heard saying. \u201cIs there going to be really anybody who really is worried about him?<\/p>\n

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\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholson and her husband had been married for 30 years at the time, but were separated. She’s heard talking about getting into his house.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I go in there, if I turn over, say the coffee table, and I open the cupboards, and I’d go upstairs and I’d pull dresser drawers out and make it look like they’re rummaging through for something. That’s going to make them suspicious, is it not?\u201d she wonders.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust make sure you got gloves on,\u201d Vey whispers.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, Vey wonders about a fire at his house.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is that’s how, you know, it’s set up to be an accident, right?\u201d he says. \u201cDo you know what I mean? Like, the house burns down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholson talks about lighting the curtains ablaze.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought if I could just pre-start the curtains, they’re not going to be able to tell how it started,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cOK. I know what you mean,\u201d Vey responds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt starts there and these get going … see, I could get those ones going to help it along,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

Crown lawyer Lori O’Connor has told the jury she intends to prove the lovers settled on a plan to kill Brigitte Vey in a house fire and Nicholson’s husband by overdose.<\/p>\n

Under cross-examination, Brigitte Vey acknowledged that her husband had never hurt her in the past and she had never been concerned for her safety before hearing the recording.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt no time in the entire relationship did he ever threaten you with physical violence, correct?\u201d asked Nicholson’s lawyer, Ron Piche.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, he didn’t,\u201d she agreed.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, RCMP Cpl. Dereck Wierzbicki testified that searches were done of both the farmhouse and Nicholson’s home in Melfort but no plans were found.<\/p>\n

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Both accused have pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

The trial is expected to last two weeks in Court of Queen’s Bench in Prince Albert, Sask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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